Montreal sweeps Lightning to big numbers

Tuesday night the Montreal Canadiens completed their sweep of the Tampa Bay Lightning in the first round of the NHL Playoffs and brought in big numbers for RDS, with an average audience of 1.7 million viewers tuning into the game.

According to numbers from BBM Quebec provided in a release, as many as 2.4 million people had tuned into the game to catch the first sweep for the Montreal team since 1993.

On average, 1.5 million viewers tuned into the four games of the first round of the playoffs on RDS, an increase of 21% over the five post-season games the team played in 2013.